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Julie Spraggon offers a detailed analysis of Puritan iconoclasm in England during the 1640s, which led to a resurgence of image breaking a century after the break with Rome. She examines parliamentary legislation, its enforcement & the parallel action undertaken by the army to rid the land of superstition.
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Growing up in British Guiana in the 1930s and '40s ... In Demerara Sugar, author Pam Walters provides a child's-eye view of British Guiana -- the British Empire's only foothold on the South American continent -- that is by turns poignant, humorous and insightful. The sugar plantations of the Guianese region of Demerara were integral to the economy of the Empire. Expatriate English, Scots and Irish managed a plantation economy only possible with the work of field labour and a colonial society of merchants, teachers and government officialdom. "All are childhood memories and what I gleaned from Kitchen-talk and word-of mouth stories from the people around me at the time," the author writes of ...